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Advanced Techniques

I’ve saved some of my favorite advanced techniques for this chapter, which devotes a little extra space to some special features of the Nikon D500. This chapter covers GPS techniques and special exposure options, including time-lapse photography and very long and very short exposures.

Continuous Shooting

Even a seasoned action photographer can miss the decisive instant during a football play when a crucial block is made, or a baseball superstar’s bat shatters and pieces of cork fly out. Continuous shooting simplifies taking a series of pictures, either to ensure that one has more or less the exact moment you want to capture or to capture a sequence that is interesting as a collection of successive images, as seen in

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